I don't know what is behind the curtain

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

we grow fearless when we do the things we fear

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea